Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
I think by now we all understand that hacking and scamming is an operation for profit without conscience or morals. The BBC has this warning article showing that young or old, tech savvy or not everyone can be a victim of theses con-artists. ‘We lost festive savings in family WhatsApp …
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Fishing gear seller caught in hacker’s net – BBC News Angling Direct, the UK’s biggest fishing shop has been hacked, with users being redirected to a pornography site. it was probably a phishing attack – I could not resist that.
In 2017 an academic paper1 about printer security highlighted open ports on many different types of printer. The paper was published on Monday 30 January and the following weekend a hacker using the pseudonym Stackoverflowin searched the internet to find vulnerable printers. The hacker then made his way into over …
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This online fraud was carried out by a 17 year old boy – not an international hacking group. He made over £2m from impersonating a popular shopping site. Lincolnshire boy has £2m of cryptocurrency seized by police – BBC News
Whenever you are online, it pays to be vigilant. This is especially true when you need to hand over personal information such as your email address via a website contact form. The first thing to look out for is the URL of the website, which should start with https:// This …
